I’m not convinced altering artwork is ever necessary. Most times I can’t see the point of messing with something that already works. That said, they did a nice job with the Purple Rain reissue, making the white background platinum.

I know what he was going for, but the All Things Must Pass remaster that George Harrison supervised had that horrible colorized front cover ... The original cover’s understated, elegant, black and white photo is infinitely superior and, more importantly, was a better representation of the music itself.

I don’t seem to be able to post pics at the moment, but the recent reissue of Delaney & Bonnie’s Motel Shot used a blah photo of the two rather than the original picture of the number on a motel room door.

I always hated the colorized Rykodisc cover for David Bowie's Station to Station. It loses all of the stark coldness and austerity of the original black, white and red original album cover, which fit in so well with the music. Thankfully, the original cover was restored with the 2010 reissue.

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The colour version was actually the way the artwork was originally planned in 1975/6. Until someone discovered that the design is more in tune with the music if you ch-ch-change it to black and white. They actually produced proofs that are now extremely rare and go for crazy money.